Relentless political text messages on iPhone

Endgamee6 wrote:

I am receiving nonstop, political text. Every single one I reply stop and 30 minutes to an hour later I get another one. It is nonstop. How do we get rid of this?

Replying STOP just tells the sender that you have a valid text address. Forward the message to 7726 (SPAM) and your carrier can block the number. Of course, the text spammers use a different fake phone number each time.

If the texts are all coming from a single number (or at least appear to be) you can try to block that number, though these sorts of junk texts often come from spoofed or multiple numbers and so cannot be blocked. If you can identify the campaign that's sending these messages, you could try to contact them and get them to take you off their call list, though I doubt very much that would be effective. Or depending on the country you're in and its laws regarding sending unsolicited texts, you could report the campaign to your country's communications authority.

Other than that, all you can do is get a new phone number.

Regards.

Endgamee6 wrote:

I am receiving nonstop, political text. Every single one I reply stop and 30 minutes to an hour later I get another one. It is nonstop. How do we get rid of this?

Consider deleting and reporting as junk instead.

Not much you can do then. Once your number gets onto spam lists like clearly has happened to you, there's really no way to stop such texts. Reporting them is like Whack-a-mole, you report and block one and more just pop up. And as Lawrence said, when the sender is amoral and unscrupulous, as these appear to be, replying with STOP just confirms to them that the number is valid so they can sell it to other spammers. And they love business numbers since they know you can't easily change it.

Regards.

If you figure that out, you should be put in the running for a Nobel prize…